In Louise Finch’s insightful novel The Eternal Return of Clara Hart, a boy who’s stuck in a time loop confronts the events that led to the death of a classmate. For Spencer, the anniversary of his mom’s death is a painful day. At a... Read More

While New York City prepares for a hurricane, the staff and patients of a headache clinic brace against a storm of their own making in Amy Grace Loyd’s novel "The Pain of Pleasure". A doctor unpacks the consequences of prescribing joy... Read More

In Karen Krossing’s meaningful novel "Monster vs. Boy", a child faces a monster and his own past. Eleven-year-old Dawz lives with his sister and their uncle, who adopted the children after their mother disappeared. He is happy, enjoys... Read More

Sisters’ lives are upended when their father is accused of being a communist in Susie Finkbeiner’s historical novel The All-American. Bertha is a high school student in Michigan. Her mother is British; her father is a talented... Read More

In Debra Borchert’s suspenseful historical novel "Her Own Revolution", a woman is pulled between a sense of duty to her French family and her personal beliefs. Geneviève is a strong-willed Parisienne who resents that she doesn’t... Read More

Sensual, earthy, and mystical, Sophie Strand’s novel "The Madonna Secret" views Jesus via the woman who loved him. Refreshing in its perspective and stunning in its breaks with church-curated, patriarchal characterizations of Jesus and... Read More

"Into the Bright Sunshine" is an incisive biography of Hubert Humphrey, the rural Midwesterner who grew into a prominent, persuasive politician in the vanguard of civil rights. Humphrey’s Great Depression-era childhood in South Dakota... Read More

In Jenny Lund Madsen’s novel "Thirty Days of Darkness", a misanthropic author is embroiled in a murder mystery. Hannah’s books are cerebral, acclaimed by critics—and read by almost no one. After making a rash, very public promise... Read More